Up & Down

Horace Parlan - Up & Down

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Artist: Horace Parlan
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2009-02-10
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:

The Book's Beat
Up and Down
Fugee
The Other Part of Town
Lonely One
Light Blue
Fugee (alternate take)

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Music Review: Everything's Up on "Up & Down"
Rating: 5 Stars

Horace Parlan's "Up & Down" is a most welcome addition to the RVG Series. Over the past twenty years, only three of Parlan's seven Blue Note albums were even issued in the States, with all of them currently out of print. (Thankfully they were all collected on a Mosaic set.) As a result, you may not have any CDs by Horace Parlan as a leader, but you might be surprised by the sessions he appeared on as a sideman. In the late 1950s, Parlan was a mainstay in the band of Charles Mingus, appearing on the classic Atlantic album "Blues & Roots" and Columbia's "Mingus Ah Um." On Blue Note, the great rhythm trio of Parlan, bassist George Tucker and drummer Al Harewood was the foundation for many classic dates of the early 1960s -- Dexter Gordon's Doin' Allright, Lou Donaldson's "Midnight Sun" and several Stanley Turrentine recordings, including Look Out, "Comin' Your Way" and "Up At Minton's." This June 18, 1961 session, Parlan's sixth for the label, added tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin and guitarist Grant Green to that trio to great effect. On "Up & Down," the pianist continues to showcase the funky hard bop grooves of earlier efforts, but the solos stretch out here in a more modern direction, led by the contributions of Ervin and Green. Look no further than Ervin's solo on "The Book's Beat" or Green and Parlan's solos on the blues "The Other Part of Town" as examples, though my favorite track has to be the forward thinking "Fugee." You can see why when Parlan returned one final time to the studio for Blue Note in 1963 (for the session known both as "Happy Frame of Mind" and "Back to the Gig"), the only players he brought back were Ervin and Green. It's too bad these three weren't able to cut as many dates as the Turrentine/Parlan groups were, but that's the "Up & Down" of the jazz life -- at least we've got this one to enjoy!

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